Do you have a right to food?

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“The right to adequate food is realised when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for procurement.”

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Your Right to Food

What does it mean to have a right to adequate food?

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Adequate Health & Nutrition

What does access to adequate health and nutrition actually mean?

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SLC the major provider supplying 51% of school lunches in New Zealand has been scrutinised for its lack of nutritional quality amongst other shortcomings

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Article 25 of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to adequate health and wellbeing, which includes access to food.

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Article 25 of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to adequate health and wellbeing, which includes access to food. *

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“Everyone has the right to adequate food.”

Where people are unable to provide food for themselves, the government must provide food and that the right to adequate food must “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”

— New Zealand Human Rights Commission